Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Leah S. Bauke
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.
Leah S. Bauke
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leah S. Bauke plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Article
2022 Linguistic extravagance in compounds and idioms – an analysis of morphological marking Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 131–154 | Chapter
This paper investigates the role of morphological marking as the driving factor for linguistic extravagance in idioms and compounds in German and English. It argues that formal structural properties of morphological marking alone can account for compounds that are regular, i.e., compositional,… read more